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A Scam Email with the Subject
"Notification of Limited Account Access"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:48:04 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal Inc." <postmaster@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.

Scam Email Headers

This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.

return-path:

<webmaster@paypal.com>

envelope-to:

employment-scams@HUN1P0T

delivery-date:

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:48:04 -0700

from:

"PayPal Inc." <postmaster@paypal.com>

reply-to:

"PayPal Email ID PP321" <acc@paypal.com>

to:

employment-scams@HUN1P0T

subject:

Notification of Limited Account Access

date:

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:45:52 -0500

mime-version:

1.0

content-type:

multipart/alternative;boundary="--3777208104246743245"

status:

RO

message-id:

<DWLHGFUNSWSIHXKQFKUMWVKD@charter.net>

Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'

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PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its
community ofbuyers and sellers.
To protect the security of your account, PayPal employssome of the most advanced
security systems in the world and
our anti-fraudteams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual
activity.

Recently, our Account Review
Team identified some unusual activity in youraccount. In accordance with PayPal's User
Agreement and to ensure that
youraccount has not been compromised, access to your account was limited.
Youraccount access will remain
limited until this issue has been resolved. Thisis a fraud prevention measure meant to
ensure that your account is
notcompromised.

In order to secure your account and quickly restore full
access, we mayrequire some
specific information from you for the following reason:

We would like to ensure
that your account was not
accessed by anunauthorized third party. Because protecting the security of your
accountis our primary concern,
we have limited access to sensitive PayPal accountfeatures. We understand that this
may be an inconvenience but
pleaseunderstand that this temporary limitation is for your protection

Case
ID Number:
PP-046-631-789We encourage you to log in and restore full access as soon as
possible.Should access to your
account remain limited for an extended period oftime, it may result in further
limitations on the use of your
account ormay result in eventual account closure.

Thank you for your prompt
attention to this matter. Please
understand thatthis is a security measure meant to help protect you and your
account. Weapologize for any inconvenience.